White Pine Award

White Pine Award
Awarded forAwarded to various outstanding works of Canadian young adult literature (Grades 9 to 12: ages 14 to 18)
CountryCanada
Presented byOntario Library Association
First award2002
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The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).[1]

Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.[2]

The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.[3]

Voting

In order to vote for the winner, one must register at the local branch library and read a minimum of 5 of the 10 nominated books. The program ends in April (of that year), with the voting day usually on April 18. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year.

Winners

Fiction

Award winners[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2002 Shelley Hrdlitschka Dancing Naked Orca Book Publishers
2003 Gillian Chan A Foreign Field Kids Can Press
2004 Don Aker The First Stone HarperCollins
2005 Marnelle Tokio More Than You Can Chew Tundra Books
2006 Charles De Lint The Blue Girl Viking
2007 Eric Walters Shattered Viking/Penguin
2008 Martine Leavitt Keturah & Lord Death Red Deer Press
2009 Cory Doctorow Little Brother Tor Books/H. B. Fenn and Company
2010 Pam Bustin Mostly Happy Thistledown Press
2011 Richard Scarsbrook The Monkeyface Chronicles Thistledown Press
2012 Kelley Armstrong The Gathering Random House of Canada/Doubleday Canada
2013 Jeyn Roberts Dark Inside Simon & Schuster
2014 Lisa Harrington Live to Tell Dancing Cat Books
2015 Eve Silver Rush HarperCollins Canada
2016 Jeyn Roberts The Bodies We Wear Knopf Books/Random House Canada [5][6]
2017 S. J. Laidlaw Fifteen Lanes Tundra Books [7]
2018 Danielle Younge-Ullman Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined Razorbill Canada [8]
2019 Heather T. Smith The Agony of Bun O'Keefe Penguin Teen Publishing [9]
2020 Courtney Summers Sadie St. Martin's Press [10]
2021 Tanaz Bhathena Hunted by the Sky Farrar Straus and Giroux [11]
2022 Kate McLaughlin What Unbreakable Looks Like Wednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers [12][13]
2023 Kate McLaughlin Daughter Wednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers [14][15]
2024 Kate McLaughlin Pieces of Me St. Martin's Press / Macmillan Publishers [16]
2025 Sarah Suk The Space Between Here & Now Quill Tree Books / HarperCollins Canada [17]
2026 Emily Varga For She is Wrath Wednesday Books / Macmillan Publishers [18]

Non-fiction

Award winners
Year Author Title Result
2012 Neil Pasricha The Book of Awesome Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books
2014 Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke The Secret of the Blue Trunk Dundurn Press

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nominated Lists". Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "White Pine Award". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "White Pine Award Winners and Nominees 2002-2018" (PDF). Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "White Pine Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  5. ↑ "2016 OLA Forest of Reading - White Pine Award (Grades 9 to 12) - 2016". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  6. ↑ Cerny, Dory. "Awards: OLA Forest of Reading". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Cerny, Dory (2017-05-17). "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading Winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  8. ↑ von Koeverden, Jane (2018-05-17). "Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading Winners". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  9. ↑ Rubinoff, Joel. "Waterloo children's author nabs $50,000 prize". The Record. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  10. ↑ Scriver, Amanda (March 2021). "YA novelist Courtney Summers and the complicated allure of cults". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  11. ↑ Porter, Ryan (2021-05-18). "Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony, announcing first round of winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  12. ↑ Deogun, Inderjit (2022-05-19). "Students across Canada chose these 9 books as the 2022 Forest of Reading Award winners". CBC.ca. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
  13. ↑ "What Unbreakable Looks Like". Kirkus Reviews. May 1, 2020. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
  14. ↑ Deogun, Inderjit (2023-05-14). "Students across Canada chose these 9 books as the 2023 Forest of Reading Award winners". CBC.ca. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
  15. ↑ Kruse, Jodi. "Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (#QP2023) Featured Review of Daughter by Kate McLaughlin". Young Adult Library Services Association. American Library Association.
  16. ↑ Deogun, Inderjit (2024-05-16). "2024 Forest of Reading winners announced". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
  17. ↑ Deogun, Inderjit (2025-05-15). "2025 Forest of Reading winners announced". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
  18. ↑ Deogun, Inderjit (2026-05-14). "2026 Forest of Reading winners announced". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
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